UPDATES: Amtrak Train Derails In Vermont, 4 Injured

Four people were injured when an Amtrak train derailed Monday morning in central Vermont , according to a local fire department.

Three cars of a five-car Amtrak train went over a “steep embankment” in Northfield, according to Leon Eggleston, a lieutenant with the Montpelier Fire Department.

Vermont State Police spokesman Scott Waterman told Patch it happened in the “area of Bull Run Road.”

The four injured passengers were being transported by ambulance to Central Vermont Medical Center, and the severity of their injuries were unknown, Eggleston told Patch.

The cause of the derailment was also unknown, Eggleston said, and “most of the agencies around central Vermont” responded to the incident.

Northfield is a town of about 6,000 people 10 miles south of Montpelier, the state capital.

The derailed train was the 55 Vermonter, and a status report on Amtrak’s website said the train was headed for Washington, DC.

The Vermonter runs daily between St. Albans, Vermont and Washington, D.C and last year served more than 88,000 passengers, according to the National Association of Railroad Passengers.

The Federal Railroad Association said on Twitter that it sent investigators to the derailment site.

You can see photos of the scene from across social media below:

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